A
Primer of Materia Medica
for practitioners of Homopathyby Timothy Field AllenPresented by
Médi-T.

NITRIC ACID

Generalities :

Rapid emaciation.
Sharp pains in different parts of the body, seeming to be in the
bones ; suddenly appearing and disappearing ; pains are felt
even during sleep.
Tearing pains in the limbs and body, especially after becoming cold.
Weakness so great that he is constantly obliged to lie down.
General aggravation from washing with water.
Symptoms < evening and night.
General amelioration from riding in a carriage.
Generally indicated in people with dark hair, of "tense fibre".
(The weakness is even associated with a general undefined feeling of
tension.)

Mind :

Easily excited, much affected by peevishness.
Easily vexed at trifles.
Discontented with himself and inclined to weep violently.
Despondent and sad.
Is anxious all day, and especially in the evening and during night, as if
engaged in disputes.
Anxious about his disease ; he thinks he is going to die.
Difficult to exert the mind, or to collect the thoughts.
Memory weak.

Head :

Feeling of rush of blood to the head, with much heat in head.
Pulsating headache, as if the head were tightly bound, > binding the
head tightly.
A feeling as though the head were in a vise, extending over the vertex,
from ear to ear.
Sharp, shooting pains in the head > lying down.
Sharp pains in the head, with great sensitiveness to noises.
Pains as if in the bones of the skull.
Pressing and drawing pains in the left side of the head, extending to the
ears and teeth.
The hair falls out freely.
Moist eruption on the scalp.
The scalp is sensitive, even to the pressure of the hat.

Eyes :

Sharp, sticking pains in the eyes.
Burning and heat.
Lachrymation as if the eye were full of tears.
Lids are heavy, difficult to raise in the morning.
Vision double, especially of distant, horizontal objects.
Obscured vision when reading ; requires strong light to read ;
has to stop earlier than usual, at twilight.

Clinical

:
Ulceration of the cornea.
Intra-ocular inflammations, iritis, pains aggravated by lying down and at
night ; particularly indicated in the abuse of Mercury.
Lachrymal fistula.

Ears :

Shooting pains in the ears.
Hearing blunted.
Cracking noises when chewing.
Swelling of the glands behind and beneath the ears.
The shooting and tearing pains are > warmth of the bed.

Nose :

Nostrils sore, ulcerated, scabby.
Tip of the nose red and scabby.
Stinging in the nose on touch.
A feeling of distress at the root of the nose, with sticking pains, <
sneezing and coughing.
A feeling of soreness in the nostrils, with itching.
Nose is stopped at night.
Discharge passes only into the throat.
Fluent coryza, and at the same time the nose feels stopped, with difficult
breathing.
Shooting pains in the throat.
Nasal discharges offensive, yellow, bloody.

Clinical

:
Discharges from the nose.
Caries of the mastoid bone, syphilitic or mercurial.

Face :

Pain in the bones of the face, tearing < night.
Cracking in the joints of the jaw when chewing and eating.
Ulceration of the corners of the lips, becoming scabby, with stinging
pain.

Mouth :

Inner surface of the lips bleeds and smarts, with shooting pains.
The teeth become yellow, loose and painful.
The gums are soft and spongy and bleed easily.
Toothache on taking anything cold or hot into the mouth.
The teeth become so loose that they almost fall out.
Blisters on the tongue, with burning pain.
Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue ; ulceration on the inside
of the cheeks, with sticking pains.
Inflammation and ulceration over the whole interior of the mouth, with
offensive saliva.
He bites the mucous membrane of the cheeks easily when chewing.
Profuse saliva, which is sometimes bloody, and of a foul order.

Throat :

Inflammation and ulceration of the throat, with white patches and sharp
pains, as from splinters, on swallowing.
Constant desire to hawk mucus from the throat, with sharp, stinging
pains ; with soreness as if raw and ulcerated.
Swallowing difficult on account of inflammation and sharp, stinging pain.
Violent, shooting pain on swallowing ; extends to ears and causes a
wry face.

Stomach :

Great hunger, with sweetish taste ; weakness ; appetite very
variable.
Thirst great.
Longing for indigestible things, such as chalk, lime, earth and fat.
Distress from eating milk.
Pain in the cardiac orifices of the stomach on swallowing food.
Shooting and sticking pain in the pit of the stomach.
Eructations sour, empty.
Nausea after eating ; with heavy, dull head.
Vomiting of tenacious or bloody mucus.

Abdomen :

Flatulent symptoms ; rumblings.
Cutting pains.
Shooting pains in the region of the liver ; < motion.
Pressure and shooting in the region of the spleen.
Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands, with splinter-like pains.

Rectum :

Stitches ; splinter-like pains during and after stool, with spasmodic
constriction in anus.
Pain during stool as if it would be torn asunder.
Itching and burning in anus, at night, on walking, in the morning,
extending to perineum.
Ineffectual desire and inability to evacuate feces on account of
inactivity.
Hæmorrhoids, with bleeding after every stool.
Soreness and moisture of hæmorrhoids, with shooting pains.

Clinical

:
Ulceration of the rectum, with splinter-like pains after stools.
Fissure of the anus, with constant oozing of fetid moisture, with
sensation of rawness and smarting as if cut.
Old painful, pendulous hæmorrhoids.

Stool :

Diarrha, frequently slimy, offensive.
Stools bloody, with tenesmus, fever and headache.
Stools consist only of mucus, with cutting pains and straining, also with
burning in rectum.
Constipation, with evacuation of hard, scanty masses, with burning and
cutting in the rectum and anus.
Following the stools, great irritability of mind and general exhaustion.

Urinary organs :

Frequent urging at night, with scanty micturition.
Micturition in a thin stream as from stricture.
Ineffectual micturition.
Stinging in the orifice of the urethra.
Burning and smarting during and after micturition.
Urine offensive, scanty, dark-colored.
Urine cold when passed.
Urine deposits a red sediment.

Clinical

:
Chronic inflammation and ulceration of the urethra, with burning and
stinging pains.
Inflammation of the bladder.
Urine has a strong odor like horses' urine.
Urine albuminous, with pain in the region of the kidneys.
Urine bloody.

Sexual organs :

Ulceration of the penis ; the ulcers are elevated, with sensitive
edges, sharp, splinter-like pains.
Soreness and burning in the glans penis and beneath the prepuce when
urinating.
Ulcers on the corona glandis, exuding an offensive matter.
Excrescences offensive and bleeding on touch.
Vesicles appear on the prepuce that ulcerate and burn and sting, becoming
covered with a thick matter.
Swelling of the prepuce, with burning pain and the development of small
ulcers, exuding a bloody, offensive matter, with sticking and tearing
pains, < evening and night.
Menstruation earlier ; soreness and itching of the external genitals,
with the development of ulcers, exuding yellow or bloody matter, which is
offensive.
Leucorrha brown, flesh-colored, stringy, greenish, offensive, < after
menstruation.
The hair on the genitals of both sexes falls off.

Respiratory organs :

Voice hoarse, especially after long talking, with scratching and stinging
in the trachea.
Cough usually short and dry, caused by a feeling of constriction in the
throat, < fore part of the night, preventing sleep until towards
morning, with a feeling as if the chest were tightly bound, often with
stitches in the small of the back.
Dry, barking cough in the evening after lying down.
Cough causes anxiety and vomiting of mucus and food.
Stitches in the sides of the chest.
Whistling rales on inspiration.
A feeling of soreness in the chest when coughing and breathing.
Chest seems filled by a rush of blood, with heat and anxious palpitation.

Heart and Pulse :

Anxious constriction about the heart, sometimes with palpitation in the
evening in bed, or on ascending steps, with anxiety.
Pulse small and weak ; intermittent, irregular and fluttering.

Neck and Back :

Stiffness in the nape of the neck, with stitches between the scapulæ.

Extremities :

General uneasiness, with drawing pains.
Tearing and drawing in the arms, especially below the elbows.
Tearing and drawing in the lower extremities as if in the bones.
A feeling of gnawing in the bones and pulling in the sinews of the lower
extremities, < night.
Legs restless in the evening.
Weakness of the knees.
Cramp in the calves when walking.

Skin :

General yellowness, with constipation.
Dark spots like freckles.
Redness and heat in the hands and feet as though they had been frozen, or
like chilblains.
Stinging or burning pains in old ulcers or in warts.

Sleep :

Starts in fright on falling asleep.
Frequent waking and inability to fall asleep again after a long time.
Sobbing during sleep, with anxious dreams.

Fever :

General external coldness.
Constant chilliness.
Heat and sweat, with great weakness after eating.
Dry heat at night, with much thirst.
Sweat usually in the morning, especially on the soles of the feet, causing
soreness, with sticking pains as if walking on pins.
Sweat offensive at night, especially in the feet and in the axillæ.